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Whenever I try to open up my emails in my Thunderbird email Program I keep being requested to enter a password and it doesn’t seem to work properly. How can I fix this? It’s only with my Outlook emails my husband and my mother have the same issue please help.

Your instructions for changing outgoing server settings for Microsoft SMTP server require changing authentication method to OAuth2. Unfortunately this doesn't appear in the drop down menu. I only have No authentication, Norman password, encrypted password, Kerberos/GSSAPI, NTLM. Which of these should I chose instead or how can I get the correct setting to show? Security settings for incoming server settings are fine (ie. OAuth2 can be selected).

Received message from Microsoft they are changing over to the New Modern Authentication as of Sept. 16th. Thunderbird does support Modern Authentication for using a third party But do I need to do anything?

 I can't change my server settings with SMPT from changing the "normal password"to" OAuth2"  though I can change the IMAP server from "normal password" to "OAuth2". Is this neccesary>
Please help, I've been a user of TBird for over 25 years!  I don't care for the "bells and whistles " that other sites offer.  I love the simplicity of TBird.  mj

I use Thunderbird on Windows 10; I have a verizon.net email account which I access through Thunderbird. Verizon.net email is transferred to the server from AOL Mail, and I have been able to get and send my emails on Thunderbird at verizon.net for years. This week, after Thunderbird's latest update, I have not received any incoming mail on Thunderbird, but I can see my emails on AOL Mail. The technical expert I consulted deduced that the problem is with Thunderbird such that AOL is not connecting to the incoming mail server, even after the password was changed. I can send messages successfully from Thunderbird; the outgoing mail works.

Hello Thunderbird, Lovin' your Work, but!... The Thunderbird Calendar 'search' timeline has become very limited. I used to be able to search all past present and future entries, but now all I get is 'Today' onward up to 'next 12 months'... that's it! I really need to be able to find more than that, particularly 'past' events. I'm sure I'm not alone in asking if the ability to search 'All Entries' can be re-introduced with future updates of the Thunderbird Calendar.

FYI, I am using Thunderbird Version 128.2.0esr on a 2015 iMac with macOs Big Sur version 11.4.

Cheers and thanks in antici...pation!

I've been a Thunderbird user for years. I have no idea what they changed recently, but it's incredibly, incredibly SLOW, almost to the point of unusability. Even something as simple as deleting emails.

I usually do these in chunks -- select multiples and delete. We're not talking about hundreds of emails at at time here, just maybe 5-15. Select them all, hit delete, and it should take just a couple of seconds to delete the messages. It did, in the past. But lately, it's taking so long that I could leave and make a sandwich, and when I come back, maybe it will be done. Maybe it will still be working, though, or maybe it will have locked up because it was taking so long.

It's pretty difficult to get work done at this rate.

Thunderbird email system has become so bad at blocking outgoing emails both private and business as suspected spam that it is beyond the joke; if this keeps up i will be forced to stop using this system.Ive had all settings checked by computor tech. Jim .

I have both Gmail and Aol accounts on my installation, 115.9.0. My aol account is behaving funny. If I choose to display only unread emails, the screen goes blank and no messages show. I then click on sent message, click back on incoming and the messages reappear in the "all" messages display. The Gmail account is just fine, I can click between "All" and "Unread only" with no issues. Can't figure out what's going on.

Please help - I'm in the middle of an email sales campaign and losing sales.

Windows 10 My email addresses are mile_oak@rogers.com and i75dave@rogers.com

I use Thunderbird email as my client between Rogers/Yahoo and had difficulties receiving or sending email messages with the Yahoo servers this morning. This has now been cleared up by Rogers Tech staff and I can now see and respond to my incoming emails through the Rogers/Yahoo website.

However, I have lost the contact between Thunderbird and Rogers/Yahoo.

The Rogers Technician changed my passwords this morning and I have done the same under "Passwords" in Thunderbird.

The Yahoo server is set at pop.mail.yahoo.com, with SSL/TLS and OAuth2

My settings for i75dave@rogers.com (my most important address) Outgoing traffic is:

Server: smtp.broadband.rogers.com Port 465 Security SSL/TLS Authentication: OAuth2

Thanks - I'm desperate to resolve this server to client communication problem

Opening a message in Thunderbird i get this instead of the contents of the message --Apple-Mail-8B93079C-6931-440C-A880-44533077DD28-- The message comes in clearly in GMAIL. Why is this happening.

I would like to install Thunderbird on two separate Win7 networked computers and use the same "Thunderbird Data" on a NAS for both. I already use the Data on the NAS for computer number 1, but trying to run Thunderbird on the second computer gives the well-known error "Thunderbird already running..."

I received the following email from Microsoft. Is this a scam or is it for real? If real, how do I continue to access my email through Thunderbird?

"Immediate Action Required: Update your sign-in technology before September 16th, 2024 to maintain email access.

The safety and security of your information is top priority for Microsoft. To help keep your account secure, Microsoft will no longer support the use of third-party email and calendar apps which ask you to sign in with only your Microsoft Account username and password. To keep you safe you will need to use a mail or calendar app which supports Microsoft’s modern authentication methods. If you do not act, your third-party email apps will no longer be able to access your Outlook.com, Hotmail or Live.com email address on September 16th.

What do you need to do?

If you are receiving this email, you are currently using an email or calendar app that uses a less secure authentication method to connect to your Outlook.com email account. You will need to upgrade your third-party mail and calendar app to a version which supports modern authentication methods.

Microsoft provides free versions of Outlook for your PC, Mac, iOS, and Android devices which can be easily downloaded and connect to your email account. Using an updated version of an Outlook application will ensure you are connecting in the most secure way.

How can you set up your Gmail, Apple Mail, or other third-party mail application?

Various non-Microsoft applications will have their own steps for connecting to your Outlook.com email account using modern authentication methods. See our help article - Modern Authentication Methods now needed to continue syncing Outlook Email in non-Microsoft email apps. However, you may need to contact the creators of those applications to provide you with instructions. In many cases, simply removing and re-adding your account with the latest version of that application will configure it to use modern authentication methods."

I am not very computer savvy, so any help would be appreciated. Jo

I got an email from Microsoft saying that I'm using a third-party email app that will not work after Sept 16. What do I need to do to keep getting emails through thunderbird?

Help please. Can anyone provide a step-by-step guide to get a Thunderbird calendar (PC based) to automatically synch with the native iOS calendar app (running on ipad and iphone)? I have Thunderbird 128.1.0esr installed. iOS 17.6.1 installed on devices. Prior versions of Thunderbird solved this problem with the use of a third party add-on TbSync this product is no longer available under TB 128

Hi I need to create a filtering rule so that messages with attachments (specifically PDF files) are moved to another folder. I can't find a parameter anywhere that would allow me to create such a filter. Please help. Is this even possible?

Best regards Slawek

My Thunderbird version just got upgraded and my previous configuration that properly applied a signature file is no longer working. To try and fix this I unchecked the option for signature and then added it back and selected the correct signature file. Can someone please verify if there is an issue now with files with a ".html" extension? This worked fine before this upgrade.

When I use Shift-ArrowKeys (or Shift-MouseClicks) to select multiple messages, as soon as I select the second message in the group, the Preview Pane switches from message preview mode, to some kind of an "aggregate text-only few-lines-of-peek" mode (don't know how better to describe it).

In this mode, it shows a few text-only lines of each message in the selection, which is usually of no value whatsoever because most eMails are HTM and the text shown is meaningless. I can't see the whole eMail as I select them in a group (usually to delete the group).

(I've attached a screen shot to show what I mean)

I want Thunderbird to stop doing that, and just show me a true preview of each message as I select it for addition to the selection group, so that I can read it and be sure I want it in the group, just like it does when I select a single message instead of multiple ones.

Can I get Thunderbird to show me the correct and full preview somehow?